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Brookhaven, GA, July 2, 2017 – by Trey Benton – The City of Brookhaven has awarded a $45,000 contract to Municode/AHA Consulting to redo the City's website, other development and hosting. Municode/AHA Consulting was among 17 vendors who responded to a Request for Proposal to provide these services after the City determined� �the current website doesn't reflect Brookhaven's brand and navigation is not intuitive.

Launched in December of 2013, the City's current website was originally designed by Vision Internet, who has also designed sites for the cities of Atlanta, Decatur, Smyrna and others. That initial design cost the City roughly $21,000. Since the original design, the City has continued a maintenance and hosting contract with Vision for approximately $6,500 per year, subject to annual renewal. Each year a 5% increase is placed on the service to cover any technology upgrades, etc.

CLICK TO ENLARGE: Current City of Brookhaven website home page. Source: COB

The City says the features the new website should include are listed below:

User experience:

Intuitive navigation

Clean, sharp design

Event calendar

Prominent search function

Mobile friendly

News alert scrolls

Social media integration (share buttons, follow buttons, etc.)

Translation function

Employee interface:

Easy-to-use content management system (CMS)

Workflow and permissions mechanism

Ability for webmaster[s] to create submittable forms

Website features:

All relevant content imported from current site

Optimized with SEO best practices

Ability to embed or use iFrames to display our third-party systems, including but not limited to Minute Traq, Rec 1, MuniCode, JustFoia, GIS websites/maps and SunGard

508 compliance

All features that are standard for municipal websites

Ability to create distinctive department home pages

Marketing tool for city

Dynamic news blog

Google custom search engine or equivalent/better

Search engine indexes all CMS content and external website resources

Site map

The City previously allocated funding of $10,000 toward a site redesign and $10,000 of unspent funds in other Communications cost centers. The Council's recommendation approval of this contract includes the authorization of an additional $25,000 for a total of $45,000.

Source: Brookhaven approves $45K for website redo, development and hosting